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Rageaholic Monkey posted:It sounds exactly like everything else Modest Mouse have been doing over the past few years, which, cool I guess, but it doesn't sound like they've either gone back to their roots or evolved in any way. Not much to get excited over. On one hand, this is true. On the other hand, of course I'm going to get it day one because holy poo poo it's been eight loving years since the last album
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Modest Mouse released another new track and a new music video. The track is decent. The video is adorable.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I'm not at all surprised, just disappointed that one of my all time favorite bands have comfortably settled into mediocrity even though I know they're capable of so much more than that. What's your favorite album of theirs? Mine is We Were Dead and I've listened to literally everything they've ever made, even the Ugly Casanova soundtrack for that one awful documentary. It's a different-strokes thing.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:It always varies between Long Drive, Lonesome Crowded West and Moon & Antarctica. Don't get me wrong, I like Good News and We Were Dead, but not even close to how much I like those other albums. It almost feels like those 2 groups of albums are from entirely different bands. I think a lot of the silky guitar work on Building Nothing out of Something is really reminiscent of We Were Dead, and the fuzz-stomp of Lonesome Crowded West is there too in a shinier, glassier sort of way. Long Drive and Good News are the two real outliers in terms of sound, the first because it was their debut and had a lot of grungy weirdness in the mix (poo poo like Head South or Tundra/Desert had a single echo in poo poo Luck and was never heard from again), and Good News because they didn't have Jeremiah Green and his drumming is the band's backbone. Seriously, I liked Good News but the percussion suuuucked outside of Ocean Breathes Salty. What I'm saying is that if you take in their whole timeline then it's really more of a refinement than a total transformation, they've been peeling back a lot of their indie quirks - the grunge fuzz and prog-rock stuff, which I never really liked that much to begin with - and keeping focus on Brock's voice and the guitar work. My main concern with this latest album is that it's way less oblique than anything else they've made. This is the first time Brock's made such direct social commentary and it's really not to his benefit, "western civilization is sort of hosed" is a really obvious (if true) statement and becomes tiresome even if you cover it in Modest Mouse-colored paint.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Where some of their older material is some of the music that has resonated with me the most in my life And there we go, you're suffering from the "everything was better when I was twelve" effect. The new track started off too much like Lampshades but I liked the breakdown that started at the halfway point. I'm wondering what the studio version of "Pistol" will sound like, I heard it live six months back and it sounded weird as hell.
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Feb 4, 2015 01:34
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Those guitar licks in Grey Ice Water are still some of the prettiest noises I've heard.
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Avalanche posted:Re-posting this because HOLY gently caress! Those two need to release a full album yesterday.
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Madisen Ward and Mama Bear's album was sort of a surprise in the wrong ways. That initial live performance of theirs was amazing, but the guy's vocals are totally shot in the studio release. He keeps dipping into that midwestern warble and it's a big turnoff, not to mention you can hear him fighting for breath at multiple points in every song.
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May 27, 2015 04:00
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cptn_dr posted:Nothing on the new CHVRCHES album is grabbing me in the same way that Science/Visions did on the first album, but other than that, I think it's pretty good. Can't wait to see them in January. I don't think anything on it is as good as "The Mother We Share" but "Down Side of Me" tries awfully drat hard.
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My main issue with Plastic Beach was that the whole album seemed to run at more or less the same tempo so I'm on board with something more eclectic.
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I just heard the new National single and I am stoooooked I really hope that "Checking out of a Collapsing Space" is on the new album, even the prototype live version was incredible.
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Why didn't I know there were new Haim singles, why am I always late to this stuff Why are their songs so good despite always consisting 80% of a single loving hook over and over again
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I just found out that Checking Out of a Collapsing Space is going to be on The National's new album (renamed "Walk It Back") and I am hyyyype, that's one of the best songs they've made in years.
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Cemetry Gator posted:I found U2 to be interesting up until after around 2000 or so. I think before then, they were really expanding from their original post-punk sound. Songs like New Years Day have a great New Order-ish vibe to them, and as the 80s went on, they expanded a bit. Obviously, Angel of Harlem sounds nothing like a Joy Division song. Bass faaaaace~ I'm pretty sure it's an image thing. She's not as much of a looker as the other two so she pulls those ridiculous faces while they play. Fans seem to like it, at least. The new album's a disappointment. Drowning in needless studio bullshit.
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lyrics are pretty weak but excellent sound modest mouse is the only band i've heard that captures that "guitars are melting as we play them" feel
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cptn_dr posted:I like the song, but drat that video looks like an ad for a life insurance company. the national's videos are an acquired taste (that i never acquired) can't wait to finally hear the studio cut of Rylan
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Apr 6, 2019 00:47
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new modest mouse track dropped yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Fo_sW4Xfo getting a sort of "devil and his nasty parlor tricks" vibe from these last two singles, much shorter and simpler than a lot of their more recent work
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Apr 20, 2019 00:25
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yeah like i said, it reminds me of their more insubstantial b-sides from Parlour Tricks like Here It Comes or So Much Beauty in Dirt
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Apr 20, 2019 04:43
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the national's newest track might be one of my favorites they've ever released gail ann dorsey's been a great addition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_aN81SBI3A
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Sumo posted:The National should not be allowed to put out an album in the Spring/Summer and I say this as a fan of The National *crooning violins* let's go to the beach past the beach where the girls wear their white velvet run some sunscreen on your skinny neck i can't get away with this oh when you turn away, turn away just don't bump me with your amer-i-can el-bow amer-i-can el-bow *crunchy drum solo*
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May 11, 2019 03:14
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i am really disappointed by that cut of Rylan, hopefully the album version will have more of berninger's vocals and less of the backup singers
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BonoMan posted:What is up with Rylan by The National? it's just been demoed for a while and people were waiting for a proper studio cut, mostly not sure what you mean by "no structure," it's a pretty standard "verse 1 - chorus - verse 2 - chorus - bridge - chorus" affair if anything it's poppier than most of their songs
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May 16, 2019 15:22
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Rylan to me is a song about commiserating with a severely depressed kid by telling him that everyone else is as broken and diseased as he is and that’s a Big Mood e: really not liking the changes to the chorus' lyrics, the rhymes don't even scan anymore Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 00:09 on May 17, 2019 |
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May 16, 2019 23:31
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Where is Her Head is the standout for me so far e: the moment i first heard that stabbing violin in the opening thirty seconds i knew i was in for a fuckin ride further thoughts: they sort of botched "rylan." changing the chorus' lyrics to eliminate the phrasal repetition and cutting the third chorus out entirely ruins the song's flow to a degree that not even the enhanced percussion can save. the title track is quite nice especially in the last minute, "dust swirls in strange light" is pleasantly strange though i'm not sure how well it'll hold up to repeat listens, "oblivions" is great as mentioned. the two long tracks i'm going to have to settle into and "hey rosey" and "roman holiday" just feel like generic mid-tempo dirges right now, though i like the keyboards on the latter Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 18:02 on May 17, 2019 |
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DC Murderverse posted:this and Franz Ferdinand's ST are intertwined forever in my mind, they remind me of being 13 It wasn't that great. Maybe your tastes haven't developed at all in the last 15 years, but I'm comin outta my cage and I've been doing JUST FINE gotta gotta be down because I want it all, it started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this, it was only a kiss, IT WAS ONLY A KI
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Jun 8, 2019 14:29
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as someone who hasn't been impressed with modest mouse's recent tracks, i saw this tumblr post and while it's just a parody it kind of slaps "i'll have a nice day too many times" is a solid line
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Matt Berninger’s solo album came out today I like it when the mumbly man sings the sad words
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this got recc'd to me and it's pleasantly mellow, has a tinge of surf-rock to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMGCeWS7E3k
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Her Dryer posted:thanks for reminding me, alligator/boxer/high violet is a very good trio of albums, and Trouble Will Find Me has some good songs on it but is also the start of an obvious and natural decline. matt berninger knows how to do exactly one thing and if you like the exactly one thing he does then i don't think any of their albums can steer you wrong high violet was a bit weirder than the rest but i am easy to find is one of my favorite albums period
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cptn_dr posted:New Future Islands, my dudes tiny man doing his tiny man dance
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otoh the golden casket was a complete dud I don’t think Marr’s silky guitar chops can change much if Brock’s songwriting doesn’t improve
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green was one of the best drummers in the scene and central to MM's identity, this is a sin
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the latest national song dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEMabLFhD38 this and Tropic Morning News have definitely been some of the lyrically knottiest songs they've put out recently. like more high-tempo versions of Not In Kansas
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Feb 25, 2023 09:20
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imo skinny ape, cracker island and especially silent running are some of the best songs in their entire catalog, though in the case of silent running that's partly because i'm very easily taken in by soulful wailing background vocals
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Feb 26, 2023 16:54
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the national’s new album is out and imo it’s one of their weakest - Berninger said he was dealing with writer’s block at the time and some of the songs do feel like he’s just struggling to get something recorded. taylor swift feels superfluous on her guest spot and phoebe bridgers doesn’t do much for her songs either. Your Mind Is Not Your Friend in particular is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard from them, though that’s not bridgers’ fault - the production is monotone and mushy and the lyrics are inane sufjan stevens knocked it out of the park though. gorgeous opening track https://youtu.be/-0v_D7nAc1k
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i thought Sleep Well Beast and I Am Easy to Find were two of their most distinct-sounding albums, between the former's more electronica-type beats and the latter's emphasis on backing vocals (which then carried over to Serpentine Prison). Easy to Find in particular has a lot of my favorite songs from their whole repertoire First Two Pages is way more scattershot in comparison and i thought it had more outright duds than anything else they've put out, but in any case the relative homogeneity of their sound is something you sign up for going in. at this point in my life my musical tastes are defined by: a) is this something i listened to fifteen years ago b) does this remind me of something i listened to fifteen years ago c) does it make me go "oh that's nice" in the first ten seconds
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May 2, 2023 01:00
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new san fermin single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_3q9w5RXTc
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there’s more than a few indistinguishable mid tempo crooners and alphabet city is a much worse opener than once upon a poolside but the collabs are lovely. the bridgers one especially is miles ahead of either the ones on the last album
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had no idea everything everything had another album in the works, and unlike the last one, this doesn't have AI-assisted lyrics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEb9rDs0x9Q
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san fermin released another track. i like the sound of this one, a little bit like jenny lewis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5B5NzZ8VYo
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